South America

South America is a continent located in the Americas, bordering the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. South America has twelve sovereign states and two non-sovereign states, and it has a population of 371,090,000 people, with a vast majority speaking Spanish; Brazil speaks Portuguese, Guyana speaks English, Suriname speaks Dutch, and French Guiana speaks French - the rest speak Spanish due to the Spanish Empire's conquest of South America in the 1500s.